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Our relationship to time is both a developmental and a relational one; an inter- and intra-psychic experience. Exploring how the theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and their successors offer explanations of how the psychoanalytic subject develops and sustains a concept of time and the factors that may hinder this, this essay suggests that different qualities of time, such as continuity, rhythm, repetition and interruption, can reveal themselves through the client's transferential and countertransferential relationship with the therapist. Using fictionalized clinical examples it explores how a bodily felt experience of time was thought about by the therapist/author using Laban movement analysis to support a client in ‘working through’ early material that felt stuck. The exploration of a client's perspective is brought in through the writings of the activist Passerini on her psychoanalytic treatment (cited by Baraitser in Enduring Time) and her experience of trauma's capacity to stop time. The essay also looks at how psychoanalytic ideas of temporality challenge the ‘recruiting’ of time by the wider culture to create more time-efficient late-capitalist subjects but by using ideas from movement studies and a Lacanian influenced time register it is suggested that cultural attacks on subjective experiences of temporality could be challenged within therapy. It is hoped the essay encourages the therapist to become alert to the manifestations of different temporal experiences within the therapeutic relationship and to develop a creative, embodied language with which to explore it with the client.